The Global Youth Video Project (GYVP) has now been in Ghana for a month. In the last week we have been filming in Ejura in the Ashanti region of Ghana. It takes roughly 10 hours to get from Busua to Ejura through a series of shared taxis, bus and tro-tro’s (tro-tro’s are private minibus vehicles and normally if you can fit in you can get on). It was definitely a worthwhile trip. GYVP partnered up with the Integrated Rural Education for Change (IREC) organisation who helped us to film with two of the local schools. IREC now has a new facebook page to link its volunteers and supporters so please go to facebook, search: Integrated Rural Education for Change, and “like” their page to give them support. We also worked with IREC to help address the sustainability of their projects. IREC is focusing on two main projects, one is a women’s project that works to help women to earn a living wage and the second is a HIV/AIDS peer education project currently running in the local schools. However, they are chronically underfunded. We want to wish them success with the funding that they are hoping to find in the future and we will be continuing to help look for better funding streams.

Weather:

As appose to the colder climates in the world, the Ghanaian climate is hot with temperatures around 37 degrees Celsius during the day. This is in stark contrast to the news stories we keep seeing about sub-zero temperatures elsewhere. In the last week it feels like there has been an influx of holidaymakers to the area as many people are gearing up for a sunny Christmas.